Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Saleh, Queen's University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

guides and learning modules. It is also an area that demonstratesfaculty-librarian partnership in conducting research in the field of engineering education and canguide the practice of library instruction in engineering courses.Bibliography: 1. Lowe, A., McMahon, C., & Culley, S. (2004). Information access, storage and use by engineering designers- part 1. Engineering Designer, 30(2): 30-32. 2. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria for assessing engineering programs 2009-2010, available online at http://www.abet.org/ 3. Engineers Canada, Canadian Accreditation Board, Accreditation Criteria and Procedures. Canadian Council of Professional Engineers, 2008. Available at: http

Conference Session

ECCD Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jaime Ramos, University of Texas, Pan American; Leonel Aguilera, University of Texas, Pan American; Elizardo Garcia, Universidad TecMilenio; Sanjeev Kumar, University of Texas, Pan American, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Roman Garcia, IEEE; Jose Sanchez, University of Texas, Pan American

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

developing and sharinglearning tools in the Renewable Energy field.The general educational outcomes of the EE program in UTPA are, concisely written: 1- usemath, 2- make experiments, 3- design equipments, 4- do team work, 5- communicate ideas, 6- beresponsible, 7- lifelong learning, and 8- computer literacy. Student's working on theseexperiments can develop further these abilities. Assessment of these outcomes will be done bythe inclusion of pertinent questions in Lab handouts.7- ConclusionGiven the current interest in the integration of solar technologies to the electric utilities, and thelack of teaching materials in this area, UTPA has developed six laboratory experiments on PVsolar technology topics. The experiments use software and hardware

Conference Session

Comparing Different Aspects of the Cooperative Education Experience

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kathy J. Prem, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Engineering Career Services; Sara Wirsbinski, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Sara Wirsbinski is currently at an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison pursing a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering.Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison Sandra Shaw Courter is PI for the ”Aligning Educational Experiences with Ways of Knowing Engineering (AWAKEN): How People Learn” project. She is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Engineering Professional Development and Wendt Commons: Teaching and Learning Services. Her area of research is engineering education, including assessment of student learning. She taught technical communication courses to undergraduate engineering students and currently consults with faculty and teaching assistants. She earned her

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum In Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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S. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University

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Engineering Technology

better serve their clientele, customers or students. Industries have implemented the total quality management (TQM) and lean manufacturing techniques to improve their product, process or service. Educational institutions have implemented the institutional effectiveness (IE) measures and various assessment tools to continuously improve the quality of education. We hope the NCEE will change with the changing times and permit the use of PC software in the FE and PE exams. We sincerely hope The Tennessee Board of Architects and Engineers will change their current policy and make way for our ET graduates to get their PE license. In fact, the ASEE and its Engineering Technology Division can help us in both of these issues

Conference Session

Modeling and Problem-Solving

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark T. Carnes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

function in the real world of engineering practice is highlyquestionable. The question that remains is whether this result is indicative of a more widespreadproblem. Using this as a pilot study, additional studies of the mental models and conceptualunderstanding of students at other institutions need to be done. Assessing the extent of theproblem is a necessary step to developing ways to address it through improved instructionalmethodologies.Bibliography1. Smith RJ. Circuits, Devices, and Systems. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley; 1971.2. DeCarlo RA. Linear Circuit Analysis: Time Domain, Phasor, and LaPlace Transform Approaches. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2009.3. Redish EF. Discipline-Based Education and Education Research: The

Conference Session

Global Education in Construction Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Enno "Ed" Koehn, Lamar University

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Construction

/buliding_other_construction/building/intro.html#1 (assessed in march 2010)• [20] http://www.scribd.com/doc/26302554/National-Building-Code-of-India-2005(accessed in March 2010)• [21] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Construction_Industry(accessed in March 2010)• [22] Deepak, Gahlot 2002. Construction industry development council. Construction, Journal of India. (313). Page 22.378.17

Conference Session

International Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fakhteh Nakhavali, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Tagged Divisions

International

society observe, and describe animalsand this may help to understand or reveal culture backgrounds and differences, in fact human languages expressthe thoughts of human beings, and develop from the culture and society. By using animal metaphors we canreflect how we think about others, about human relations, and how we assess our society. Animal expressions areuseful devices for supporting different human purposes such as insulting, praising, criticizing, and describinghumans, societies, cultures, and customs. “Dog” expressions play an important role for the English and Iranian, because dog is a popular animal inboth cultures and has a close relation to people. So, because of human familiarity with this animal use itfrequently in their

Conference Session

Simulation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Guarino, Boise State University; Seung Youn Chyung, Boise State University; Charles Adams, Boise State University; Rey DeLeon, Boise State University, Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering Department; Marion Scheepers, Boise State University, Department of Mathematics; Francisco Castellon, Boise State University; Michael G. Wiedenfeld, Kuna High School; Paul Williams, Boise State University

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Computers in Education

hosts 4. Share and Disconnect the cloud hostIt’s also very important to establish protocol for use of the cloud resource, and also to providedetailed instructions for accessing and using the cloud resource. Finally, we implemented aformative survey plan to assess our effectiveness in delivering the cloud resource. MethodsThe methods used to implement each requirement are detailed below.Installation of facilitating softwareFront-end processing and small commitment for client resources are technical hallmarks for aneffective cloud resource. Remote Graphics Software (RGS), which can be purchased fromHewlett-Packard, was used to create our cloud resource. At the time of this article, RGS

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Holt Zaugg, Brigham Young University; Randall Davies, Brigham Young University; Alan R. Parkinson, Brigham Young University; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University; Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University; Aaron G. Ball, Brigham Young University

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International

was developed into a 1 to 2 hour lectureincluding power point slides, notes and student assignments. As materials for each lecture werecompleted, they underwent a review process with engineering faculty. This ensured correctengineering principles and GV team principle links to engineering. Any revisions needed weremade prior to the lecture being presented.Student assignments and assessments reflected use of course content on the GV Team. Forexample, an initial assignment required students to create an On-line personal profile. Thisincluded a picture, student experience, expertise and other information that enabled students toget to know teammates. This was followed up with a five-minute phone call where studentspaired with international to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan L. Burkett, University of Alabama; John C. Lusth, University of Alabama; Sushma Kotru, University of Alabama

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

students are exposed and involved in the creative process whiledesigning a functional product has been described. Attention was given to the artistic componentand visual appearance of the product. Three laboratories have been described for this purposewith a fourth under development. The forum for this lab was an introductory course for studentsin electrical and computer engineering. Assessment of the lab portion of this course was done bystudent surveys. Students generally rate all of the laboratories highly with the most enjoyablelabs being the kit-based projects. While they appear to enjoy the creative lab, the fact that theproject is open-ended and requires a process of brainstorming, planning, and implementation oftheir design makes it more

Conference Session

Techniques to Enhance Environmental Engineering Courses

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Ross Pfluger, U.S. Military Academy; Weimin Wu, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

conduct sampling pointsapproximately every 6 hours and can focus on proper execution of the lab. This laboratory isideally suited for a class size of 12-15 students. However, the lab could be scaled up with anadditional GC, more shaker table space, and the assistance of teaching assistants.The laboratory class in which this experimental procedure was designed is a 3.0-credit, lab-basedcourse that takes place at Stanford University once every two years and focuses on current topicsin applied microbiology. Each class is unique; therefore no student assessment data is currentlyavailable. The laboratory will best support ABET Engineering Criteria Program EducationalOutcome B, “an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and

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1999 Annual Conference

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William Shelnutt; Monica Lumsdaine; Edward Lumsdaine

,University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Since early 1998 he has served in the office of the Provost as a facultyassociate for teaching/earning/technology, distance education, and program assessment. He has taught capstone de-sign courses for over 20 years, developing senior design project course sequences at UNCC and at the University ofCincinnati. He is HBDI certified. He has also served as department chair at both institutions. Professor Shelnuttearned an M.S. in systems engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.MONIKA LUMSDAINEMonika Lumsdaine has a background in mathematics and solar home design. She is certified in the administration andinterpretation of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) and has conducted

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Tom Ward; Elizabeth Alford

Institutional Services for the College of Engineering at the University of SouthCarolina where he manages undergraduate recruitment, retention and assessment. He received his B.S. from theUniversity of Oregon in 1981 and a Master of Public Administration from the University of South Carolina in 1987.He has been an instructor for the USC’s Freshmen Year Experience Program for the past 12 years. He has taughtspecial sections designed for engineering freshmen and was a team instructor for pilot courses taught for highschool seniors. Page 4.328.6

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Arnoldo Muyshondt; Ing-Chang Jong

., “A Technology Assessment Survey for Web Based Higher Education Pro- grams,” Session 2542, 1997 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings.9. Jong, I. C., and Muyshondt, A., “Simple Scripts to Produce Interactive Web-Based Tests With Immediate Feedback: Software and Illustration,” to be published.10. Herrmann, E., Teach Yourself CGI Programming with PERL in a Week, Sams Net, 1996.11. Brenner, S., and Aoki, E., Introduction to CGI/Perl: Getting Started with Web Scripts, IDG Books, 1995. (This book covers CGI scripting and cgi-lib.pl.)12. Lemay, L., Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 14 Days, Second Professional Reference Edition, Sams Net Publishing, 1997. Appendix A

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Ann M. Bisantz; Amjad Aref; Alexander N. Cartwright

in Part 2 rather than giving students written descriptions. Additionally, in Part 3, students were given actual press releases rather than a summary to read. Presentation results were assessed by means of a short survey and a one minute paper. The survey asked students to rate their impressions of the subject presentation, quality of reading materials, assignments and activities, and the experience overall, on a 5 point scale. The one minute paper asked students to describe aspects of the class they found to be difficult to understand, aspects that were interesting, and aspects which were important to learn

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1999 Annual Conference

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Peter Kwok; Eron Flory; Javed Alam, Youngstown State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

the learning module lectures. A majority of the seniors that missed the lecture had an onor off campus job interview. The instructor also used student suggestions to improve thelearning modules.6. ConclusionThe man-hours associated with the development, assessment and refinement of the learningmodules was tremendous. In fact, the effort is comparable to writing a textbook since thecreation of figures and equations, i.e., graphics, are very time-consuming tasks. For this reason Page 4.365.11the authors were not able to complete all the learning modules needed for an introductory FEMcourse. This is also why nearly all course Web sites include

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1999 Annual Conference

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William Swart

department and leadership of a taskforce are essential to achieving theCollege’s mission and objectives. Hence, no specific weighting is assigned to each. They areboth key requirements of the job.Leading a taskforce and administering a department require different skills. Both skill set arenow required of the department chair. The new requirement for taskforce leadership versusadministration may require a redefinition of how the administrative activities of the departmentare conducted. Since many of the administrative activities of departments are the same, acollaborative exploration will be conducted to assess the feasibility of centralizing many of thecommon administrative duties. In our case, these common responsibilities were assigned to anewly

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1999 Annual Conference

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Amir Salehpour; Vijay Subramanian

developed a list of activities, that he may be involved with. Vijay’s assessment of thementoring experience will be in the form of a final report, submitted at the end of the quarter.”This kind of a general outline is very typical in all the mentoring programs in PFF. The self-accountability can be looked as one of the characteristics of the PFF program. This format of apersonal statement provides the participating student to set his own goals, his own means toachieve them, at a pace that fits both the mentor and the mentee. Even the mode of assessmentcan be set accordingly. In our case, we had also decided that we would publish on ourexperiences, and this paper is the result of that decision.The actual experience:It is said that a job well begun

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1999 Annual Conference

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E. J. Mastascusa; Brian Holt

electronicmodules on that work. The Kolb cycle concept has substantial evidence for itseffectiveness. It is a concept that seems particularly attractive for engineering facultyand students, and its implementation is straight-forward and relatively easy in ourcontext. While the Kolb cycle is the foundation for the pedagogical aspects of the lessons,there are other aspects that we had to consider. The general esthetics of the design areimportant. Also, the structure of the lessons has a great effect on the assessibility ofmaterial. In particular, most engineering material is not really as sequential as thenumerical order of pages in a text would imply. Control systems, in particular, is really aweb of interconnected knowledge, and it seemed especially

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1999 Annual Conference

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Said Shakerin; Daniel Jensen

UndergraduateTeaching Using Computer Animation," Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. 3 (2), pp.121-126, 1995.12. Ullman, K. M. and Sorby, S. A., "Enhancing the Visualization Skills of Engineering Students ThroughComputer Modeling," Computer Application in Engineering Education, Vol. 3 (4), pp. 251-257, 1995.13. Brochert, R., Jensen, D., “Hands-on and Visualization Models for Enhancement of Learning inMechanics: Development and Assessment in the Contest of Myers-Briggs and VARK Learning Styles,”ASEE Annual Conference, Session # 1368, Paper # 4, 1999.14. Moaveni, S., “Integrating Solid Mechanics and Design in an Undergraduate Finite Element Class

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1999 Annual Conference

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Melinda J. Piket-May; Julie Chang; James Avery

Boulder in 1993, where she is currently an Assistant Professor. In addition to havingan active research program in computational electromagnetics, Professor Piket-May works on undergraduate designissues and is moving towards an interactive class environment where the student is in charge of the learning.JULIE L. CHANGJulie L. Chang is currently a recipient of an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, andTechnology Education. She is working as a Research Associate in the Integrated Teaching and Learning Programand the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado. Her current interestsinclude assessment and evaluation techniques. Dr. Chang received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in

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1999 Annual Conference

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Ann D. Christy; Marybeth Lima

effective parameters to decrease the microbialload on fresh apples, and assess the effects of ozone treatment on cider quality as compared withraw and pasteurized products.The class was divided into four student teams to work on the ozone project: 1.) A machinerydesign team that worked on the apple conveyor and ozone contact chamber. 2.) Anenvironmental team that worked on capturing and treating any stray ozone emissions for thesafety of workers who would be operating the system. 3.) A fluid mechanics team that worked onoptimizing the mixing regime and designing proper flow rates. 4.) A transport phenomena teamthat worked on optimizing the mass transport of ozone from the generator to the disinfectionwater to the apple surface, by designing the

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1999 Annual Conference

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Richard B Cole; Charles V. Schaefer; Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard

includes:Engineering Graphics (2-credit laboratory), Engineering Seminar (1 credit), and Engineering De-sign Laboratory I (1-credit laboratory).The major goal of these activities in the first semester is to provide the students an early bondingwith engineering and its style and task orientation as distinguished from science. They are aimedat initiating development of competencies that will build through subsequent design experiences:1. Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs2. Ability to function effectively on multidisciplinary teams3. Ability to identify, formulate and assess alternative technical and economic solutions to en- gineering problems.4. Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively, both in writing and

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1999 Annual Conference

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Mulchand S. Rathod; Joella H. Gipson

thewhich was used by the faculty to revise the content teaching was taking place in lab setting, it was notand pace. At the last class of the program, each difficult to introduce additional material. About 2-3teacher/counselor completed an assessment of their additional faculty and graduate students wereperceptions of the enrichment program. Table 4 available to help the subject area lead faculty.contains specific answers for all four knowledge General consensus was that if middle school teachersareas. Almost all the comments and evaluations and counselors are exposed to more technical skillswere positive. In general, participants were very and knowledge, more they

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Michael Ruane

, Practical Experience, and Learning Style," Journal of Engineering Education, v.86 (4), October 1997, p. 321.2. NASA Student Launch Program site: http://www.wff.nasa.gov/pages/studentlaunch.html3. IVEX web site: http://www.IVEX.com4. Lewis, P., Aldridge, D., Swamidass, P.M., "Assessing Teaming Skills Acquisition on Undergraduate Project Teams," Journal of Engineering Education, v.87 (2), April 1998, p 149.5. Acona, D., Kockan, T., Scully, M., van Maanen, J., Westney, E., "Team processes-Module 5,", in Managing for the Future, Southwestern College Publishing, 1996, p. 14.6. SPECTRE web sites: http://bu-ast.bu.edu/buas/SPECTRE/spectre.html and http://net.bu.edu/spectre/spectre.html7

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E. Dendy, Jr. Sloan; Anthony E. Vigil; Ronald Miller

engineers come across.” • “Troubleshooting was valuable because the principles and tools learned have universal application.”Now that we have learned how to effectively incorporate troubleshooting into the course, weplan to formalize our assessment of student troubleshooting skills by creating scoring rubricswhich will allow us to more reliably document improvement in students’ abilities to use fact-based cause analysis to systematically solve process troubleshooting and similar “real-world”engineering problems.Conclusions and Lessons LearnedWe have successfully introduced process troubleshooting into our traditional process designcourse to provide students with experiences and strategies which will help them solve “real-world

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1999 Annual Conference

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Anton Pintar

a Job Safety Assessment Form (JSA).Potential hazards must be identified along with the necessary precautions that will be taken toavoid accidents. Procedures for handling chemicals, for dealing with personal contact withchemicals, for dealing with chemical spills and for proper disposal of chemical waste arerequired. The JSA must also indicate the personal protective equipment required for each step inthe procedure, the location of the necessary safety equipment, the proper emergency shutdownprocedure and the evacuation routes (King, 1998). No experimentation can be done until theJSA has been approved at a check-in with the faculty advisor and at a second on-site safetycheck-in with the laboratory supervisor or with a graduate teaching

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1999 Annual Conference

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Sal Arnaldo

. Ellison, “Teaching Engineering Ethics: Assessment of Its Influence on MoralReasoning Skills,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, No.1, ASEE, January 1998, pp.29-33.8. Stewart, Rodney D. and Ann L. Stewart, Proposal Preparation, 2nd Ed, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992, pp.204-205.9. Wankat, Phillip. and Frank Oreovicz, “What is Good Teaching,” ASEE PRISM, Washington DC, September1998, p.16.10. Wujek, Joseph H. and Deborah G. Johnson, “How to be a Good Engineer,” on the World Wide Webhttp://ethics.cwru.edu/essays/guide2.html, Ethics Committee of The Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers, Inc., United States Activities Board, Washington, DC, January 1992.SAL G. ARNALDOSal Arnaldo is currently a practicing supervisory civil

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Marjorie Skubic

assessment of each individual student’swork for assigning a grade. For this purpose, the individual weekly status reports have beenquite useful, as it is relatively easy to determine from the reports how much each student hascontributed. The reports have also proven to be a good source of feedback on what is working,what needs to be changed, and whether the students are learning anything, which in the end is theultimate measure of success. Well, it’s been some semester, eh? Lots of interesting people and lots of interesting robots... Well, in closing, ------ ...Camel, BeanDip, Roach, NSF3D, Killer... are all gone.... ...this is Ripley, last survivor of

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1999 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar; Paula Ford

the tin-canphone system. Because the technology was so simple, students could focus on the writing task athand. Students again had very lively discussions of ways for the systems’ users to signal to theperson on the other end of the phone that they could switch from speaker to listener. Do you tugthe string? Do you say a code word such as “over”? Some students preferred to solve thisproblem with a technological fix and designed tin-can phone systems that had four cans—two forlistening and two for speaking. Some students drew cartoons for their manuals; several used thecollege’s digital camera to take photos for their manuals. One student provided an outstandingmap of the island. The assessment standards for this assignment are attached in